Fostex HP-V8

摘要

As baffled as I am by the wilful hamstringing of headphone amplifiers - a few are actually integrated amps and more are preamps with neither speaker nor line outputs - they now form a defined sub-genre in our world. Some, like those from Mclntosh, Quad and AudioValve, do add line outputs or speaker terminals, but bill themselves as 'headphone amplifiers' because it's now a buzzword in the way 'digital' once was. And yet Fostex's HP-V8 - one of the largest and costliest on the market and probably able to drive certain full-sized horns - doesn't even include the now-obligatory DAC.